After doing my evaluation I realised my magazine needed improvements and these are the final changes I have made. After making these changes I am a lot happier and more confident with my products as I think they look more professional and realistic. They also follow more conventions of house music magazines than my old products.
Front Cover
On my front cover I changed my masthead to make it look more professional and follow the conventions of other house music magazines and by doing my research it looks very similar to the Mixmag masthead, I also found out how to put my subjects over the masthead which is a convention of well established music magazines - you don't have to see their mastheads because they are so well known. I also changed the colour scheme of my magazine and added more vibrant colours to make it look more attractive to the audience and also follow conventions of other house music magazines because they use dark colours but also include vibrant colours like yellow and pink. As my front cover image would appeal to women I used a light blue so it had an element to appeal to men. I text wrapped my plug and added another one so my magazine would look more like existing magazines and look more aesthetically appealing to the audience. I made the layout of cover lines and anchorage text more similar to those that Mixmag has so they would stand out more and look more professional than having them all in boxes, I added more cover lines so my magazine looks like it has more to offer as before the right side looked a bit bare. I added a drop shadow to all my text so that it could be more eye-catching and make the audience be able to see it better. I added a weblink at the top of the page because it would appeal to the audience because they are up to date with the latest technologies and would be able to easily access the website due to having smartphones, laptops etc.
Contents Page
On my contents page I changed the images on my contents page as they were not original images and from doing some research I found that on most house music magazine contents pages they don't include a lot of images apart from the main focus of the magazine so the audience are drawn to the main image rather than the other smaller images and instead added more pages to my magazine so again it could look as if my magazine had more to offer. I changed my colour scheme to match my front cover and making the headings more clear and eye-catching to the audience. I changed the page number and subheading fonts so that they weren't as big and the page now looks less bare. I changed the way the 'contents' was laid out so it could stand out to the audience and not look as boring and looked more aesthetically pleasing. As I changed my masthead on my front cover I had to include the new one on my contents page to continue to house style. I removed the lines and grey part of the contents page as it didn't look very professional and looks a lot better without these.
Double Page Spread
On my double page spread I only made some minor changes. I changed the main image to one that uses direct mode of address so it would engage the audience more, I also changed the colour of the second page so it would fit more with the colour of the picture. I moved my pull quote as part of the columns because it is a convention of other music magazines and it made the title of the pages the focus instead of the pull quote. In the title I made the name of the artist bigger so the audience would be clear on who I was focusing on and it would stick in their mind. I removed my web link as it wasn't in proportion with the banner and didn't look very professional. To continue my colour scheme and house style I changed the colours of the questions and the byline.
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